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John Hutton Balfour Excursions

“Excursions may be truly said to be the life of the botanist. They enable him to study the science practically, by the examination of plants in their living state, and…

Biography of John Hutton Balfour

John Hutton Balfour Born: 15 September 1808 Place of Birth: Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh Died: 11 February 1884 Place of Death: Inverleith House, Edinburgh Occupation: Botanist and Teacher The…

A bigeneric hybrid

X Amarygia parkeri is a bigeneric hybrid of garden origin. The result of a cross between two South African genera; Amaryllis belladonna x Brunsvigia josephinae. The flower stem…

Finding Monocarpus, in the herbarium

At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh we’ve been working on the phylogeny of the complex thalloid liverworts for rather a while now. David Long presented a poster on…

Another Green World – Linn botanic Garden

Nestled between folds in the low hills facing Loch Long the Linn Botanic Garden is one of Scotland’s lesser known botanical treasures – a remarkable collection of plants…

A Gardener at War, by Freda Child

The memorial poppy and wild flower meadow on the glasshouse lawn at RBGE has inspired many visitors to contemplate the bravery and sacrifice of men and women involved…

On Monocarpus

As far as liverworts go, Monocarpus is a rather strange plant. It’s very small, in itself not that unusual for a bryophyte, but rather problematic if you need…

Autumnal Gentians

Sitting atop the limestone wall at the alpine area where the roots are guaranteed a growing medium with good drainage is Gentiana paradoxa. Enjoying exposure to full sun…

August 2015 Garden Wildlife Report

August was quite a bright sunny month especially in the second half, with 23rd being a particularly glorious warm day. Eight more species were added to the Garden’s…

British Art Show 8

Inverleith House is looking forward to presenting the 8th edition of the British Art Show, the last time it came to Edinburgh was back in 2000. Here’s a…

Talks and Events at Inverleith House: Now available to listen online!

Throughout all of the exhibitions at Inverleith House we run an exciting and ambitious programme of events. These involve talks and screenings, poetry, walks and hands-on workshops. All…

Dry tropical forest movie making

  Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests are found throughout Latin America from Mexico to south-western Brazil and northern Argentina. Dry forest is the world’s most threatened tropical forest due to…

300,000 specimens imaged and online!

Yesterday saw the 300,000th specimen from our herbarium collection imaged and made available on our website. This is a big milestone for the digitisation programme, which has been…

High chaparral

In flower just now is a plant of the Californian chaparral; a shrub land plant community evolving through mild wet winters and hot dry summers. These areas are…

Botanics Sparrowhawks – Latest Observations

As with the observation of any wild creatures, observing sparrowhawks requires a lot of patience and often the luck of being in the right place at the right…

Dawyck BioBlitz 2015

Over a 24 hour period from 5pm on the 24th July 2015 naturalists and the public joined forces to record as much wildlife as possible at Dawyck Botanic…

Wartime Rhododendron

  In the Autumn of 1914, George Forrest was travelling in China. His letters written at the time mention the difficulties he was facing in getting permission to…

Wild Scottish and Free

Last week I presented my first one off show as part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas in the Edinburgh Fringe. The event got a good audience and…

Paul Nesbitt talks to Summerhall TV about John Chamberlain

Paul Nesbitt talked to Summerhall TV about the current exhibition at Inverleith House by the great American artist, John Chamberlain: The exhibition forms part of the Edinburgh Art…

Gardeners Kitchen – What to cook in August

I have a problem in my house, its botanical name is Cucurbita pepo a.k.a. courgettes. Most sensible gardeners advise that you don’t need more than 3 plants. However…